Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

When a team tells you we’re going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that’s a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest. But if they do not, and Minnesota can come in here and run the football, we are going to have ourselves a good game tonight.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.